All these XO threads
Peter Robinson
pbrobinson at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 19:55:42 UTC 2008
> For those in the US the folk at OLPC will have another give-one:get-one program
> this fall.. The XO is cute and yes nifty. A serious Linux USER will find it a bit light
> on horsepower and memory but marvelous.
Through amazon none the less and starting on Nov 17th. Details are at
http://www.amazon.com/xo/
> As far as a teaching tool goes the software and teaching concepts can
> be applied to any laptop not just the XO. The hardware enables the
> software as much or more than the other way around.
>
> It has yum,
> It has a window manager (matchbox)
> It has a desktop (sugar)
> It has bash
> It has python
> It has wireless networking
Including mesh networking.
> It has Ctl-Alt-F[123] alternate shell
> It has an X server.
> It has user accounts...
> It has a web browser (firefox)
> It has a Fedora kernel...
> It has USB ports (three).
> It has a mousepad
> It has a keyboard....
> It has a LCD display with an advantage.
+ SDHC slot, webcam, audio in/out
> Loading software is different... no DVD/CDROM.
Not the only device though nowdays with all the Netbooks that don't
have an optical drive
> When all is said and done it runs Fedora....
> and this is a Fedora list.
Peter
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